July 2, 2009

‘We want to make rock fun again’
The Cold Goodnight seeks to deliver a high-energy show
By Katie Beth Ryan music@hippopress.com

Sean Joncas doesn’t mince words when it comes to describing the sound of The Cold Goodnight, the Dover-based band for which he is lead guitarist. The band cites distinct influences that form an unconventional family tree.

Good friends, good sound
Honest Eye releases a new CD
By Katie Beth Ryan music@hippopress.com

In order for a band to have lasting power in this town, its members must be able to be friends first, says Ryan Gagne-Hall, a.k.a. “Skhell,” of the local group Honest Eye.

CLASSICAL MUSIC
NEWS: A full house on Tuesaday night
REVIEWS: New music in Nashua
PREVIEWS: Manchester Choral Society to sing "Songs of Travel"
by Jeff Rapsis

To listen to this week's songs, click on the link below

• deSoL, "Blanco y Negro"

To listen to these artists, click on the links below

• The Freese Brothers Big Band, "Everyday I Have the Blues"

• Roomful of Blues, "Boomerang"

• The Soul Band, Music Sampler

• Kimberly Dahme, "Who Loves You Baby"

• H.N.F., "By My Side" off self-titled album

• Free Joseph, He is Here, off Here is Here

• Brian Bergeron, "Speed" off Closer EP

• Jah Spirit, "Yuh Nice", In De Mood

• State Street Liars, "Rad," off Demo

• The Rimmons, "543" off No Way Knowing

• J-Essential, "Places I've Been" off Full Capacity

• David Zoffer Differential, "Safety Prayer" off Release

• Zelazowa, "1,000 Smiles," off Rest Easy

• The Fair Enough, "October Leaves," off EP

• Betterman's Rule, "What Goes Up," off The Paper Anniversary

• ApathetiQ - "So Alone"  - off their 4-song EP

• Hot Day at the Zoo - "Ana Maribel" - off of Cool as Tuesday

• Hot Day at the Zoo - "Morning Light" - off of Cool as Tuesday

• Hot Day at the Zoo - "Full of Sin" - off of Cool as Tuesday

• Catfish Howl, "Low Rider"

• Chad LaMarsh - "Anytime/Anywhere" - off of Anytime/ Anywhere

• Rahel, "Etz Khagim Hee" off Tikkun

• Ramona Silver - "Home is Where" - off of Intermission

• Danielle Miraglia - "Sell My Soul" - off of Nothing Romantic

• KJ Denhert - "Little Mary"

• Ekko -"Skanners"

• B Street Blues Live - "Inverterbrate"

• Aksara - "Circle of Angles" off Melange  

• Aksara - "Breaths" off Melange

• Agent 23 - "Misfit" off The Road Less Traveled

• Foul Mouth Jerk - "Smalltown USA" (feat. Masta Ace) off StreetLight Music

• Primary Others - "Speak Out" - off of Highland Formulas

• Steve Lukather & Friends, "Greensleeves," off Santa Menta

• Street Drum Corps Feat. Bert McCracken - "Happy Christmas (War is Over)" off Taste of Chrismast (Various Artists)

• Harvey Reid & Joyce Anderson, "Joy to the World" off Christmas Morning

• Laura Corlin, "O Holy Night," off Tru Holidays

• Jillian Wheeler, "Real Life" off Beautiful Things

• Joan Watson-Jones, "I'm Beginning to See the Light"

• Moes Haven, "Sanitarium Employees are Uninterested in my

• Memories" off Svetlana Finds Solace in the Arms of English Men of Letters

• Pennyred - "Overload," off the Citystate Falls

6/25/2009 Screaming like a ...
6/25/2009 Reborn

6/18/2009 Karen Morgan is "Legally Funny"
6/18/2009 Rock music, Christian lyrics

6/11/2009 Jazz and Blues Fest moves indoors
6/11/2009 Slow ride
6/4/2009 When country met rock & roll
6/4/2009 Beneath the blue suburban skies
5/28/2009 A jamming space
5/28/2009 Thirsty for rock and roll
5/21/2009 Funny folk
5/21/2009 The reintroduction of JD
5/14/2009 Music of the sun
5/14/2009 Living room concerts5/7/2009 Cover band gets original
5/7/2009 Playing through the decades
4/30/2009 The original Streamline
4/30/2009 Music as medicine
4/23/2009 Doesn't have to wait
4/23/2009 Farewell, Flambeaux4/16/2009 Their duty to rock
4/16/2009 Rattle the scene
4/9/2009 10 years of brews and blues
4/9/2009 Video game dreams
4/2/2009 Step by step
4/2/2009 Heavy metal school
3/26/2009 Keeping their edge
3/26/2009 Black humor
3/19/2009 The beat goes on
3/19/2009 No contract, no problem
3/12/2009 Patty all night
3/12/2009 An Irish invasion
3/5/2009 Legally hilarious
3/5/2009 Old Abram Brown dives into Winter
2/26/2009 The Dailey show
2/26/2009 The catchy blues
2/19/2009 Two sides of the coin
2/19/2009 Time to spare
2/12/2009 A natural harmony
2/12/2009 The sound factory
2/5/2009 Music and dogsleds
2/5/2009 Highly suggestive
1/29/2009 See the game, eat snacks
1/29/2009 Swagger and growl
1/22/2009 Sing with the band
1/22/2009 On tour with Calico
1/15/2009 When honey meets granite1/15/2009 The 30-day song challenge
1/8/2009 Putting the fun in fundraising
1/8/2009 The guitar gypsy
1/1/2009 Grab your noisemaker and pop your cork
1/1/2009 An acoustic New Year's12/25/2008 Grab your noisemaker and pop your cork
12/25/2008 An acoustic New Year's12/18/2008 Creating a six-string tradition
12/18/2008 Love underthe disco ball
12/11/2008 Tapping into the positive
12/11/2008 70 albums beyond "Felix Navidad"
12/04/2008 Life after 'Hell'
12/04/2008 Insane in the membrane
11/27/2008 Quartet with a twist
11/27/2008 New Age oldie
11/20/2008 Sunny fiuture for doom metal band
11/20/2008 Two days in the grass11/13/2008 Songs of protest, songs of power
11/13/2008 Following up the Thing in Spring
11/06/2008 Rock to sink your teeth into
11/06/2008 Rap with reason
10/30/2008 Born into her destiny10/30/2008 Echoes of the Dead10/23/2008 The art of the tease10/23/2008 A soldier, a saint, an ocean explorer
10/16/2008 Opening up the skies10/16/2008 Rock and roll legends still ready to rock
10/9/2008Welcome to Mr. Zanes’ neighborhood
10/9/2008Faith in the music and the message
10/2/08 Pumpkins, magic and music for all
10/2/08 Back to the 1920s with tongue in cheek
9/25/08 The sincerest form of flattery
9/25/08 Slower nights?
9/18/08 celebrating 30 years of jazz at UNH
9/18/08 From south of the equator
9/11/08 Stone Church debt proves too heavy
9/11/08 Reggae to party to
9/4/08 Bluegrass untamed
9/4/08 Face melting rock and roll, from the kids
8/28/08 64 bands on eight stages
8/28/08 Finding a place for the kids to play
8/21/08 Got the too-many-brews-to-choose-from blues
8/21/08 Two days of free folk music
8/14/08 Following the Verbs
8/14/08 T.G.I.T.
8/7/08 Hancock towers
8/7/08 Dancing to the Afro beats
7/31/08 Hot air and hot music
7/31/08 deSoL will sing it all night
7/24/08 World of folk in Lowell
7/24/08 Roller derby roll-out
7/17/08 King Wilkie: Less of the same
7/17/08 Celebrating a year of funny
7/10/08 After a long hiatus, a singer-songwriter returns
7/10/08 Ollabelle mixes sounds of country and city
7/3/08 Granite State means hip-hop
7/3/08 He's a ramblin man
6/26/08 Making a dry Martini
6/26/08 The next big thing (needs a ride to the show)
6/19/08 Stone Church needs sanctuary
6/19/08 Busking with kazoos
6/12/08 Buckets and sticks, really loud
6/12/08 Ali Beaudry's wicked webs
6/5/08 Let them entertain you
6/5/08 Melvins stomping voodoo
5/29/08 Everybody dance now
5/29/08 Hey—this is somewhere!
5/22/08 A life of blues
5/22/08 Meet the King of Slide Guitar
5/15/08 Eat, drink and chill outdoors
5/15/08 Stories and strings
5/8/08 He's got the nice guy blues
5/8/08 Another round of Firepower
5/1/08 Dancing in the streets
5/1/08 Starbucks soundtrack changes at night
4/24/08 Finding the music in a wider world
4/24/08 Gypsy jazz at the Farm
4/17/08 From Idaho with love
4/17/08 A Ph.D. in flute
4/10/08 Ready to (pop) rock
4/10/08 The traditional flute player
4/3/08 Family, money, life — poast-goat
4/3/08 Building the crowds
3/27/08 Sorta bluegrass
3/27/08 Hold your horses
3/20/08 White-hot foosball action
3/20/08 Representing for Northeast hip-hop
3/13/08 Find the Irish in you?
3/13/08 Brian Regan cleans up
3/06/08 The $24,000 drink
3/06/08 Help for a fellow funnyman
2/28/08 The brand new same old Ani
2/28/08 On the Scene: Jazz uncovered
2/21/08 Flaming electric harp
2/21/08 Ground zero for rock that uplifts
2/14/08 20-year-old jazz prodigy tours
2/14/08 Eats drinks, dancing and sports
2/7/08 Still rocking our but with a mature sound
2/7/08 A Valentine's night out
1/31/08 Funkfoot wiggles its toes
1/31/08 Metal on the move
1/24/08 Ready in 10 is ready now
1/24/08 Cadillacs back on the road
1/17/08 Who's the greatest Guitar Hero
1/17/08 Country palooza
1/10/08 A lethal dose of rock
1/10/08 Are you jammer material?
1/3/08 Living the metalcore fairy tale
1/3/08 Still keeping the party going
12/27/07 Where to be when midnight strikes
12/27/07 Where to watch the game
12/20/07 Going black tie
12/20/07 Jam on Monday
12/13/07 Fighting words
12/13/07 Haute trashion
12/6/07 Jonathan Scott: making Manch country
12/6/07 Five bands, one night
11/29/07 Let the music happen
11/29/07 Locally grown be-bop
11/22/07 New era in music, again
11/22/07 Local album lights up
11/15/07 Going where the piano leads
11/15/07 Rude renewed
11/8/07 Stockbridge presents — on its own
11/8/07 Last night at the Uptown
11/1/07 deSoL brightens Manchester
11/1/07 Tito and tutus
10/25/07 deSoL brightens Manchester
10/25/07 Tito and tutus
10/18/07 Saying farwell to the Uptown
10/18/07 Sharing the sound
10/11/07 Suggestions from the audience
10/11/07 Bringing in the bands
10/04/2007 Are you a skater girl?
10/04/2007 Bands galore at 2nd annual FIREFest
9/27/2007 Young soloist gets gigs
9/27/2007 They're so heavy
9/20/2007 FIREfest doubles the fun
9/20/2007 A guitar, a keyboard, a drumset
9/13/2007 Birthdays and Bahama
9/13/2007 Dark Americana indie folk
9/6/2007 Bringing musica of the 'real one' north
9/6/2007 Slow but steady
8/30/2007 He's got the funk
8/30/2007 T-shirt based world aid
8/23/2007 Learn to pick, grin
8/23/2007 On drums, everywhere
8/16/2007 Learn to pick, grin
8/16/2007 Going for it'
8/9/2007 Voiceovers, solo albums, PB & bacon
8/9/2007 Mr. Bogois meets 'Mr. Jones'
8/2/2007 Five years of blues
8/2/2007 Catch the Grift
7/26/2007 Revolution-era house offers old and new
7/26/2007 Pop rock, with a side of metal
7/19/2007 Billy Sheehan, Doug Pinnick on bass
7/19/2007 Hey there food court